Motivational Quotes

Life

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

- Kafka, Franz

Best Quotes about Life

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von